June 18, 1876 – San Joaquin County, California: "Caucasian League" Lynched Man in Campaign of Terrorizing Chinesee Workers

Map showing location of Truckee, California

Narrative

In June 1876 in San Joaquin County, California, anti-Chinese vigilantes targeted a Chinese laborer. A group took extralegal action, lynching a Chinese man as part of a broader campaign of terrorizing Chinese workers. This reflects the increasingly organized nature of anti-Chinese violence in the 1870s.

Related Newspaper Article(s)

Caucasian League Murders Chinaman

Sentinel (Red Bluff, California)

June 24, 1876 (Page 2)

Truckee telegram reports Caucasian League arson of a Chinese cabin; fleeing occupants are shot, leaving one dead and one critically wounded in racial terror attack near Truckee on 18 June 1876.

A Truckee Telegram

Sentinel (Red Bluff, California)

June 24, 1876 (Page 2)

Truckee arson: Caucasian League torches a Chinese cabin; one man is shot dead, another badly wounded as 40 shots ring out north of town.

The Truckee Outrage

Sacramento Daily Union (Sacramento, California)

August 15, 1876 (Page 2)

Follow-up notes eight white suspects jailed for the June Truckee arson-murder; Sacramento Union urges lawful trials, warning that lynching those men would itself be murder.